Speech by Prof. Andrzej Zapalowski, associate of the Polish Parliament on the task of the president of the Republic of Poland to "penalize flagism" in Poland
Madam Marshal, advanced Chamber. More than 3 decades have passed since Polish society began asking for a regulation of the problem of promoting the crimes of Ukrainian Nazis on Polish citizens. 600 1000 murdered, including about 150 1000 Poles, over 400 1000 Jews.
For over 3 decades the heirs to the thought of Ukrainian Nazis freely promoted their criminal actions in Poland, utilizing the financial support of the Polish state. Just review the organs of the Union of Polish Ukrainians of our word. Over the decades you will see that there have been hundreds of articles about the heroism of UPA.
There were just revisionist texts saying, for example, the thought that Lemkowszczyzna, Zasanie, Chełmszczyzna and Podlasie are Ukrainian lands that request to be rooted and strengthened in the consciousness and subconscious of Poles. They gotta accept this idea. He paid the Polish taxpayer. My interventions reported since 1998 were answered that there was no censorship in Poland.
Since the 1990s, dozens of illegal monuments have been built in Poland in honor of UPA. The Polish state was powerless. My interventions were answered directly, so they're illegal. And the builders of illegal monuments before the authorities of the Polish state represented the Ukrainian Union in Poland.
I'll give you any material. Until present there are illegal UPA monuments. It should be recalled that in 2017, the state sent police and services to prevent the demolition of illegal UPA monuments. Like the largest in Hruszowice in the municipality of Stubno. It was the local governments that carried out the interests of the Polish state by fighting the flag ideology. And it's time for the state to start doing it.
For decades, it has been said that there is no good time for specified actions. That is to prohibit the promotion of Ukrainian Nazism in Poland. I ask you, what would happen if present were to demolish dozens of UPA monuments? What would the global consequences be? And it was done by local governments.
Today there is simply a surprise and a shock that flagism in Ukraine is being promoted at state level. Ladies and gentlemen, we are an accessory and Poland has contributed to this by tolerating.
